My LaDy AnGeLFaCe's blog: "THE 50'S"

Danny's Coffee Shops are renamed Dennys. The 1950s Pantyhose, which give women the look of stockings without garters, garter-belts, or corsets, are introduced. By a man, no doubt. Fifties Pop History February 3, 1959. A plane crash kills singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper.)Read about the Day the Music Died The 1950s Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US. If only he had meant it. Fifties Pop History The Nikon F 35-mm. single-lens reflex camera is introduced by Nippon Kogaku K.K. The 1950s She's here! BARBIE! Fifties Pop History U.S. supermarkets number 32,000 and account for 69 percent of all food store sales although they comprise only 11 percent of food stores. The 1950s New York's Four Seasons restaurant and The Brasserie open in the new Seagram Building. Fifties Pop History New Best Friends. Iran & US sign economic treaty. Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty. Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West Germany. The 1950s South Africa decides not to introduce any television. The decision will stand for 16 years. Guess they'll have to catch Lucy on reruns. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 3,287AM radio, 578 FM radio and 509 TV Stations. The 1950s Lady Chatterly's Lover banned by the U.S. Postal Service. Fifties Pop History 31.7% of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 13.7% on TV. Complete allocation of ad dollars. The 1950s Hurray for Jiffy Pop! Fifties Pop History Swimmer Esther Williams gets her own Wheaties box! Read her autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid The 1950s "Think Small" campaign from Volkwagon. In 1999 Advertising Age picked this as the number one ad campaign of the century! Must of worked because VW will sell 120,000 cars in the U.S. this year, which is four times the number sold in 1955. Fifties Pop History Maxwell House inaugurates the "Good to the last drop" ad campaign. The 1950s The BIC ballpoint pen is introduced in America! Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s A banner year for imported passenger cars. Some 668,070 of them. Up from 21,287 in 1950.The trend will reverse itself and by 1961 when there are only 279,437 imports. Fifties Pop History One billionth can of Spam sold. Remember, you heard it here first. The 1950s The second annual Grammy Awards! Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s Space monkeys Able and Baker boldly go where no monkey (or human) has gone before. Fifties Pop History The space monkeys (above) paved the way for humans. This year, NASA picks the Mercury Astronauts, 7 guys with the "right stuff." The 1950s Aluminum beer can introduced by Coors of Golden, Colorado. Fifties Pop History After 13 years as a colony of Britain, Singapore becomes a self-governing republic on June 3 under Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The 1950s On February 3, Alaska is admitted to statehood. Followed by Hawaii on August 21. For about a year in between America had a 49 star flag. Fifties Pop History Americans will spend $1.2 billion on books in a year in which 14,876 new ones are published. The 1950s A sad number. 1.25 million Americans have now died in car accidents, which is more American than have died in war. Fifties Pop History Confederate Walter Williams is the last veteran of the Civil War to die. Albert Woolson, the last Union soldier of the Civil War died in 1956. The 1950s The average American worker earns $91.53 a week. Fifties Pop History Oklahoma repeals their 51 year old Prohibition law leaving Mississippi the only "dry" state in America. The 1950s Bonanza debuts on TV. The Fifties Web TV Western Pages as does the Twilight Zone. Fifties Pop History The microchip is invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce of the U.S. A host of products using miniaturized electronics will be produced in the next few years. The 1950s Anthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey's wife Mary discovers bone and tool fragments in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. These suggest that Australopithecine Man lived more than 1.75 million years ago. The find greatly increases scientists' estimates of humankind's history. Fifties Pop History The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White is published. This book remains the "bible" for writing skills. Buy the book. The 1950s The Guggenheim opens in New York City. Fifties Pop History Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for Death in the Family Buy the book! The 1950s The Sound of Music staring Mary Martin opens on Broadway.Buy the Broadway cast CD or Buy the movie cast CD. Fifties Pop History Metrecal is introduced by the 59-year-old Mead Johnson Company of Evansville, Ind. as a weight reducing aid. It will be the forerunner of all other dietary products such as SlimFast and others. The 1950s 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica Fifties Pop History Swiss males vote against voting rights for women. A pox on your clocks, gentleman. The 1950s Presbyterian church accepts women preachers. Now that's progress! Fifties Pop History There is a 51.8% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s Vince Lombardi signs on to coach Green Bay Packers, a job he would hold until 1968. Lombardi took the losing Packers to winning back-to-back NFL titles in 1961 and 1962, and Superbowls I and II in 1966 and 1967. A great book about Lombardi, When Pride Still Mattered. Fifties Pop History Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx's final TV appearance together - on G.E. Theater with host Ronald Reagan. The 1950s Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released. Fifties Pop History This year in the Civil Rights movement. The 1950s Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark. Getting it in is one thing, mounting it on the wall... Fifties Pop History Japanese-Americans who renounced their citizenship in 1942 when they were placed in American prison camps under Executive Order 9066 regain full citizenship May 20 but receive no compensation for the losses they incurred as a result of their relocation. The 1950s Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India Fifties Pop History Giants Stadium is renamed Candlestick Park. The 1950s Fidel Castro gets control of Cuba. Fifties Pop History American will import 430,808 passenger cars. The 1950s There are 36,981 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 8 accidents resulting in 125 fatalities. Fifties Pop History Unemployment is 6.8% The 1950s U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $503.5 billion

By now, more than 45 million American households have television sets. The 1950s The John Birch Society, a radical anti-Communist organization, is created in the U.S. Fifties Pop History Dr. Zhivago is published in the US. Banned in the USSR, Zhivago won author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize which he was forced to decline due to political forces at home. The 1950s The price of 1st class US postage is raised to 4¢ from 3¢ where it had been for 26 years. Hard to believe - only a penny in 26 years! Fifties Pop History Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France, a position he will hold until 1969. The 1950s Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed when the car he was driving skidded into a telephone pole. Campanella wsa the NL's MVP in '51, '53 and '55. Fifties Pop History The Jolly Green Giant appears on TV with less than stellar results! In his first incarnation he looks like a monster which scares kids. So they lightened him up and added "Ho, ho, ho" and the lilting "Good things from the garden" song. The 1950s Modern consumer credit is born. The American Express Company introduces a charge card meant to compete with the successful Diners Club card. The Bank of American introduces the BankAmericard, which will become the Visa card. Fifties Pop History Crest toothpaste inaugurates the "Look, Ma! No cavities!" ad campaign. The 1950s Eighteen-year-old Frank Carney sees a story in the Saturday Evening Post about the "pizza fad" among teenagers and college students. With $600 borrowed from his mother, he opens the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kan. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 3,156 AM radio, 537 FM radio and 492 TV Stations. The 1950s 31.3% of all domestic passenger travel was by railroad; 27.7% by bus; and 38% by air. Fifties Pop History 30.6% of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 13.3% on TV. Complete allocation of ad dollars. The 1950s It's Here! The Hula Hoop! For more, see the FADS section. Fifties Pop History Sweet n' Low is introduced as an artificial Sweetener, using saccharin instead of sugar. Sweet'N Low received U.S. trademark patent no. 1,000,000. The 1950s Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela. Fifties Pop History UP & International News Service merge into United Press International The 1950s Vice President Richard Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru as he makes a goodwill tour of South and Latin American. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy :>) Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s NASA is created and Explorer is launched. A big year for the US in the Space Race. Fifties Pop History RIAA awards the very first Gold record - to Perry Como. Some gold album stats. The 1950s The first ever Grammy Awards! Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s Sterophonic recordings, which use two separately recorded channels of sound to recreate a sense of space, come into commercial use. Now this is progress! Fifties Pop History Friskees introduces the first dry cat food The 1950s Japan’s new Datsun (Model 211) cars begin shipping to the U.S. but only 52 will sell. An especially meager number since in 1958 America will import 430,808 passenger cars. Fifties Pop History Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi patron saint of television. Her placement on the television set is said to guarantee good reception. Maybe I should send one to my cable operator. The 1950s Right after that, Pope Pius XII died. No "connection", I'm sure. Angelo G Roncalli crowned Pope John XXIII. Fifties Pop History Harry Winston, Inc. donates the 45.52 carat Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution. The 1950s This is the peak year for drive-in movies with 4,063 outdoor screens nationwide. Fifties Pop History In the worst recession since World War II, nearly 5.5 million people are out of work. The 1950s 400 million frozen pot pies are sold in the U.S. There's a statistic you won't see just anywhere. Fifties Pop History The first women are admitted to the British House of Lords. Oh, jolly good! The 1950s Bill and Mark Richards of Dana Point, CA, invented the first skateboard. They attached rollerskate wheels to a square board and sold them at their Val Surf Shop for $8 each. Fifties Pop History The first domestic jet-airline passenger service is begun by National Airlines between New York City and Miami. The 1950s Rice-a-Roni, The San Francisco Treat, is introduced. Fifties Pop History 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban. The 1950s Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 2.46%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 4.12% Fifties Pop History Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for his book Death in the Family Buy the book! The 1950s Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, CO. The all male facility won't go co-ed unto 1976. Fifties Pop History Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China The 1950s Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate go on their killing spree. Fifties Pop History The nuclear submarine Nautilus traverses the North Pole under the polar icecap. The 1950s The National Association of Broadcasters bans subliminal ads.An important story. Fifties Pop History There is a 55.9% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s The Chevrolet Impala is introduced! Fifties Pop History Cocoa Krispies breakfast food is introduced by the Kellogg Company; it's 45.9% sugar. The 1950s Cocoa Puffs is introduced by General Mills; it contains 43% sugar. Fifties Pop History This year in the Civil Rights movement. The 1950s Dr Ake Senning installs the first pacemaker. Fifties Pop History American will import 430,808 passenger cars. The 1950s There are 36,981 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 8 accidents resulting in 125 fatalities. Fifties Pop History Unemployment is 6.8% The 1950s U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $468.3 billion

There are 47,200,000 TV sets in use in 39,500,000 homes. The 1950s General Foods Corp. introduces TANG breakfast beverage crystals. Fifties Pop History Barry Gordy, Jr. invests $700 to found "Motown Records." And the rest, as they say... is history. The 1950s Velcro is patented by George de Mestral of Switzerland. Fifties Pop History Greyhound inaugurates the "It's such a comfort to take the bus and leave the driving to us" ad campaign. The 1950s The 13-year-old Bobby Fisher becomes a chess champion. Fifties Pop History Major John Glenn, Jr. sets an air speed record by traveling from California to New York in a jet in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds. The 1950s It's here! The Pink Flamingo! Read the story! Fifties Pop History Houston, we have a problem...Sputnik is launched. The 1950s AFL-CIO votes to expel the Teamsters, which was readmitted in October 1987. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 2,974 AM radio, 530 FM radio and 471 TV Stations. The 1950s Music Man, starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway. Buy the Movie on DVD On VHS or Buy the Movie Cast on CD. Fifties Pop History West Side Story, the energetic combination of talents, Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Jerome Robbins (choreography) opens on Broadway. Buy the Movie on DVD On VHS. or Buy the Movie Cast on CD. The 1950s Britian becomes the 3rd nation to join the "nuclear club" with the explosion of an atomic weapon. Fifties Pop History Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain The 1950s More news from Merry Ole England. Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower at the White House. Talk about your fun crowd... Fifties Pop History Ed Gein's killing and mutilation spree is over as he is arrested. Gein was the inspiration for Norman Bates in Psycho and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. Read more on Ed Gein. The 1950s Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries for use in "personal transistor radios." Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack Fifties Pop History Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK as does Malayasia (formerly Malaya). The 1950s Jackie Robinson, perhaps the finest athelete of the century, announced his retirement from baseball Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s Elizabeth Taylor's 2nd divorce (from Michael Wilding) and 3rd marriage (to Mike Todd) Can you recall all her marriages? Fifties Pop History Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas. The 1950s Please Don't Eat the Daises by Jean Kerr is a book smash! Fifties Pop History James Hoffa gains control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters The 1950s The Frisbee is renamed and nationally marketed! Fifties Pop History One thousand computers are sold. And not one of them had a Windows operating system. Imagine that. The 1950s Chairman Mao of China implements his "Great Leap Forward" which places 1 million Chinese in communes. Fifties Pop History On September 4, the last game is played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the Dodgers prepare to move to LA. On February 23 of 1960, they tear the stadium down. Days that will live in infamy! The 1950s Wagon Train debuts on TV. The Wagon Train Website. Also, Have Gun Will Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo and Maverick. The Fifties Web Western Section. Fifties Pop History The National Geographic announces that it has found the resting place of the H.M.S. Bounty. The 1950s American Bandstand goes national with Dick Clark as host. The Fifties Web American Bandstand Pages. Fifties Pop History Senator Joseph McCarthy dies of cirrhosis of the liver. Good riddance. The 1950s The first large scale American nucleur power plant goes into operation in Shippensport, PA and will service Pittsburgh. Fifties Pop History The average American production worker is now making $82.32 a week. The 1950s 5,000 new products wil hit the supermarket shelves, including YES YES YES - frozen pizza. Fifties Pop History This is the EDSEL! The 1950s Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 3.81%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 4.47% Fifties Pop History At a Miami radio station, new employee Lawrence Harvey Zeiger abruptly adopts a stage name - Larry King - and begins broadcasting. The 1950s NYC ends trolley car service Fifties Pop History Pulitzer prize awarded to John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage. The 1950s Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market) Fifties Pop History The publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road introduces the words "beat" and "beatnik" into the American popular consciousness and gives a name to a generation. Buy the book! The 1950s Americans Clarence W. Lillehie and Earl Bakk invent the internal pacemaker. Fifties Pop History Theodore Geisel writes Cat in the Hat as Dr. Seuss! Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas/Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat 2-Pack [DVD] The 1950s The Little Rock Nine require federal intervention. Other events from Civil Rights in '57. Fifties Pop History There is a 51.7% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s I can't believe it isn't...Margarine sales take the lead over butter. Fifties Pop History Williams-Sonoma opens in San Francisco. Alright! The 1950s Better Homes & Gardens prints its first microwave-cooking article. Fifties Pop History American will import 258,343 passenger cars. The 1950s Proctor and Gamble acquired Charmin Paper Mills, a regional manufacturer of toilet tissue, towels and napkins. Dick Wilson, aka Mr. Whipple was a mere 41 years old. P&G also introduces Zest Soap. Fifties Pop History There are 38,702 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 70 fatalities. The 1950s Unemployment is 4.3% Fifties Pop History U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $460.7 billion

Pepsodent inaugurates "You'll wonder where the yellow went" ad campaign. The 1950s The U.S. Department of Agriculture formulates the four basic food groups. (I'm sure there would have been five - but Chicken McNuggets hadn't been invented yet.) Fifties Pop History Federal minimum wage rises to $1 The 1950s At a Fourth of July family barbecue, Milton Levine dreams up the idea for the first Ant Farm, complete with live ants. Fifties Pop History Yahtzee is born! The 1950s Nate Sherman of Chicago establishes Midas and introduces the muffler guarantee - Hugh Landrum signs agreement to open first Midas Muffler shop in Macon, Georgia. Fifties Pop History The Andrea Doria sinks. The 1950s 200,000 Soviet troops and tanks crush anti-Communist uprisings in Hungary. Fifties Pop History Budweiser Brewery introduces Busch beer The 1950s As the World Turns and Edge of Night premiere. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 2,790 AM radio, 540 FM radio and 442 TV Stations. The 1950s Los Alamos Laboratory discovers the neutrino, an atomic particle with no electric charge. Fifties Pop History Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a highly publicized Monte Carlo wedding on April 19. A pic of the Princess in her gown. The 1950s At a reception in the Kremlin, Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev tells ambassadors from the West, "History is on our side. We will bury you!" A pic of their Nikita. Fifties Pop History A busy year for Nikita - The Soviet Union sends troops and tanks to occupy Hungary to put down anti-Soviet protests. Why? Hungary is the best place from which to launch mid-range ballistic missiles and Soviets can't afford to let the natives think independence. The 1950s Choosy mothers can now choose - Jif Peanut Butter! Some fun facts! Fifties Pop History Dash laundry detergent - gets clothes cleaner than any other product especially made for automatic washers! The 1950s President Eisenhower (R) is re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D). Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s Britain abolishes death penality. Fifties Pop History Certs, the first candy breath mint, is introduced. The 1950s Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere. Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s Admiral George Dufek, as part of Operation Deep Freeze, is the first American to land an airplane at South Pole. Fifties Pop History My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York and enjoyed a run of 2,717 performances over nine years. The original production featured Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza. Buy the Movie on VHS Buy on Movie DVD The 1950s Wizard of Oz first aired on TV. Buy the Movie on VHS Buy on Movie DVD Fifties Pop History Elvis Presley makes his television debut on CBS Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show. The Fifties Web Elvis Pages The 1950s The Dow Jones Industrial Average marks a new high - 500.24 points. Fifties Pop History The after-tax income of the average American is $1700, up $63 from 1955. The average weekly take-home for a worker with three dependents is $74.04. The 1950s Albert Woolson, the last Union soldier of the Civil War dies at age 109. The last Confederate soldier, Walter Williams will die in 1959. Fifties Pop History And while we're on passings...Samuel J. Seymour , the last eyewitness to the death of Abraham Lincoln dies. The 1950s Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller. Fifties Pop History Finally, a law is passed allowing the FBI to enter a kidnapping case 24 hours after the abduction. Before, it was local matter. The 1950s A dollar buys only as much food in 1956 as 41¢ bought in 1939. Fifties Pop History A big year as momentum builds in the quest for Civil Rights. The 1950s The first transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Scotland) Fifties Pop History Americans exported 700 million cases of canned goods. And no doubt called it "cuisine." The 1950s The gross national product is $408 billion. Fifties Pop History 650,000 US steel workers go on strike. The 1950s The La Leche League is founded in Illinois to encourage mothers to breast-feed their infants. Fifties Pop History Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad, Gaza, Sheham and the Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal in Egypt The 1950s Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent. Read the sad story. Fifties Pop History By now, more than 80 percent of U.S. households have refrigerators. By contrast, only 8 percent of British households do. The 1950s Clairol introduces the "Does She or Doesn't She" advertising campaign. "Only her hairdresser knows for sure." Wanna see the ads? Fifties Pop History Bob Cousy (basketball), Bobby Lane (football) and Duke Snider (baseball) get their own Wheaties boxes! The 1950s Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl, which he had read the previous year at Berkeley. It will become a classic of the beat generation in American poetry and literature. "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." Fifties Pop History There is a 48% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s The first commercial videotape recorder is introduced. The device is intended for industrial applications, and it quickly revolutionizes the way television programming is produced. Engineers race to produce a practical VCR for consumers. Fifties Pop History The book, Peyton Place is published. A personal recollection. Also, BUY THE BOOK or BUY MOVIE ON DVD The 1950s American will import 107,675 passenger cars. Fifties Pop History There are 39,628 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 152 fatalities. The 1950s Unemployment is 4.2% Fifties Pop History U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $434.0 billion

Polio shots are given in schools for the first time. The 1950s The famous “Don’t Walk” signs are introduced to the streets of New York City. Fifties Pop History US starts sending $216 million in aid to Vietnam. Now if only we could have stopped right at this point! The 1950s The U.S. will import 57,115 passenger cars. That number will climb to 668,070 by 1959, which will be a stellar year for imports. Fifties Pop History Ann Landers starts her famous column in the Chicago Sun-Times. The 1950s Richard J. Daley is elected mayor of Chicago and begins a 21-year reign powered by patronage politics. Fifties Pop History Defying Alabama law, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. An important story. The 1950s Campbell home economists develop the recipe for the Green Bean Bake, which continues today as one of the company's most popular recipes. Some estimates go as high as 20,000,000 servings a year! Want the recipe? Fifties Pop History The first home microwave ovens are manufactured by Tappan. They cost $1300 which really slows sales! The 1950s Instant Oatmeal is invented by the Quaker Oats Company. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 2,635 AM radio, 553 FM radio and 411 TV Stations. The 1950s West Germany is admitted into NATO May 9. The Soviets counter NATO with creation of the Warsaw Pact, signed by eight countries May 14. Fifties Pop History Bella Lugosi (Dracula) goes into a hospital for treatment of 20 year drug addition. (No, not blood!) The 1950s New drugs Thorazine and Reserpine are found to be very useful in the treatment of mental patients. Fifties Pop History Birds-Eye introduces Potato Patties...no more potato scrubbing, peeling or paring for you! Simply fry patties on each side until evenly browned or you can broil or bake them. An important addition to the basic food groups! The 1950s It's finger lickin' good! Kentucky Fried Chicken Fifties Pop History Crest, the first toothpaste with fluoride clinically proven to fight cavities, was introduced. The 1950s NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won the "$64,000 Question." Her topic? Boxing. Fun story! Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s The National Review appears, edited and published by William F. Buckley, Jr. Fifties Pop History The Village Voice begins publication. Founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, the weekly publication introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. The 1950s Argentina's President Juan Peron is overthrown by a military coup, and he flees to Spain. Pope Pius XII ex-communicates him. When you're out... Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) Fifties Pop History Barbra Striesand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13 The 1950s Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food Fifties Pop History Davy Crockett is reborn on TV as three one hour installments of Disney. Supposedly, so many coonskin caps were bought that the racoon population was endangered. Read about it in the Fifties Fads section. The 1950s The adult Western comes to TV with The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp and Gunsmoke. The Fifties Web TV Western Section. Fifties Pop History Operation Alert begins. It is the first civil defense exercise and assumes 60 cities are targets. The 1950s Big year for car dealers. They produced 9,188,000 cars, trucks and buses. A million above the previous banner year, 1950. Fifties Pop History For serious trivia buffs - 11/12/1955. Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II." The 1950s The corticosteroid prednisone is developed. Fifties Pop History Congress authorizes all US currency and coins to say "In God We Trust" The 1950s Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (NYC) Fifties Pop History Not only is Del Monte Stewed Tomatoes (inspired by the recipe of an employee's mother) introduced but so is Pineapple Grapefruit Drink. You heard it here first. The 1950s Disneyland opens and has over 1 million visitors in only 7 weeks. Fifties Pop History No-iron Dacron introduced. Alright! The 1950s New at the market - Pillsbury Chocolate Angel Food Cake Mix- "you love it in white... now Pillsbury has it in chocolate too!" Fifties Pop History Appearing in East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean is killed in an automobile accident when his Porche 550 Spyder crashes near Paso Robles, California. The 1950s Top of the line mink coats are on sale this week for $895. Fifties Pop History There is a 41.6% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson; Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor; and Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh top the Best Seller lists. Fifties Pop History The 1955 Thunderbird comes to Ford showrooms. At just under $3000 without options, the Corvette now has competition. And a classic car is born. A Pic The 1950s The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge, making the new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members. George Meany becomes president. Fifties Pop History President Eisenhower takes part in the first televised press conference. The 1950s Texan Sam Rayburn is elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the third and final time. When he died in 1961, Rayburn's 48 consecutive years in the U.S. House set a congressional record for continuous service. Fifties Pop History Albert Einstein, the worlds greatest genius, dies at age 76. The 1950s Johnson & Johnson invents the first “baby shampoo”. No More Tears! Fifties Pop History New design of Ouija Board. It's only a game - isn't it? The 1950s There are 38,426 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 9 accidents resulting in 158 fatalities. Fifties Pop History Unemployment is 4.4% The 1950s U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $410.2 billion

The World Series is broadcast in color for the first time. NY Giants defeat Cleveland (4-0) The 1950s Robert Joffrey Ballet debuts. Fifties Pop History IBM announces the development of an electronic brain for business use. Named it Bill Gates - nah, just kidding. The 1950s Sports Illustrated is born! See the first cover. Fifties Pop History Another boon for sports fans - the first l6 oz beer can introduced by Schlitz, The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous! The 1950s "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit" by Adele Davis, was an early entry into the health food movement. Fifties Pop History A test program using sterilized males wipes out screwworm flies on the Caribbean island of Curacao in only 4 months. (I swear, I found that item in my research.) The 1950s Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fifties Pop History French colonial rule in Vietnam weakens when Viet Minh rebels take Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam is divided into northern and southern regions. The 1950s Brown v. Board of Education. Landmark school desegregation case. Excepts from the decision Also, About the Case. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 2,487 AM radio, 560 FM radio and 349 TV Stations. (TV has doubled from 125 stations in 1953.) The 1950s Senator Joseph McCarthy accelerates his anti-Communist witch hunt with the nationally televised Army-McCarthy Hearings and is formally censured by Congress. Fifties Pop History Baseball legend Hank Aaron begins his career by joining the Milwaukee Braves. The 1950s Sun Myung Moon founds the Unification Church. Fifties Pop History William Golding, who will proceed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, publishes his tale of the dark side of human nature, The Lord of the Flies. Buy the Book The 1950s Ray Kroc gets his first look at the original McDonalds! Fifties Pop History Hold the pickle! Hold the lettuce! The first Burger King opens. The 1950s Kraft introduces CRACKER BARREL® brand natural cheese. Fifties Pop History And the winner is...Oscar stuff. The 1950s Catholic Church declares watching Mass on TV does not fulfill obligations. Oh, pooh! Fifties Pop History M&M's Peanut Chocolate Candies were introduced.Also, the universally loved M&M's Brand Characters and the famous slogan, "The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand," slogan debuted. The 1950s The Butterball brand and the self-basting turkey are introduced. Through genetics, Swift develops a broad-breasted bird without the tough tendons and uses a hot-water bath to remove feathers. Fifties Pop History A 1953 incident where Eisenhower's aircraft was "Air Force 8610" and an Eastern Airlines plane was "8610" created the need to devise a unique call sign. In 1954, the call sign "Air Force One" was classified to identify not only the president's plane, but any plane when he was aboard. The 1950s In Sports... Fifties Pop History J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is published. Buy the Book The 1950s Elvis Presley makes his first record. The Fifties Web Elvis Section. Fifties Pop History Of the 94 million phones in the world, 52 million of them are in the US. The 1950s Chain supermarkets now account for two fifths of the food sold retail. Fifties Pop History Iwo Jima Flag Raising memorial Statue is erected. Each figure is 32 feet high. The flagpole is 60 feet in length. It's the world's tallest bronze statue. It's stands 78 feet high. A cloth flag flies from the pole. The inscription reads: "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue." The 1950s Ellis Island, the immigration station in NY Harbor, is closed. Between 1892 and 1954, 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island. Fifties Pop History Trix, 46.6 percent sugar, is introducd by General Mills. The 1950s The first nuclear submarine, The Nautilus, is launched. Fifties Pop History Federal Trade Commission and cigarettes. The 1950s Bazooka Joe comics were first introduced. Fifties Pop History There is a 42% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s A revolution in an aluminum tray! The TV Dinner. This is a good story! Fifties Pop History Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) The 1950s My favorite - Play Doh. Fifties Pop History Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Co. merge to form the American Motors Co.(AMC). The 1950s President Eisenhower introduces the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, changing the phrase "one nation, indivisible," to "one nation, under God, indivisible." Fifties Pop History The first successful kidney transplant is performed in the U.S. by Harvard physicians. The patient will survive for seven more years. The 1950s Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt April 17. On October 19, Nasser signs a treaty with the British under which the British will withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone. Fifties Pop History Canada and the United States agree to build a 3000-mile-long array of radar warning stations across northern Canada (the DEW line - Distant Early Warning). The stations will warn the North American nations of airplanes or missiles approaching over the Arctic. The 1950s Dr. Roger Bannister of England becomes the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes on May 6. His time is 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds Fifties Pop History General Electric introduces colored kitchen appliances. Bye, bye white! The 1950s A hydrogen (fusion) bomb is detonated March 1 on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. Fifties Pop History There are 35,586 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 3 accidents resulting in 16 fatalities. A good year to fly. The 1950s Unemployment is 5.6% Fifties Pop History U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $383.0 billion

Chevrolet begins to roll out plastic-bodied Corvettes. Read More Book - Corvette Fifty Years The 1950s Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine Fifties Pop History New York adopts three color traffic lights. The 1950s Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay become the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Fifties Pop History Playboy Magazine begins publication, featuring nudes of Marilyn Monroe in its first issue The 1950s The Church of Scientology is founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction writer. Fifties Pop History University of Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys points out a correlation between coronary heart disease and diets high in animal fats. Also know as "The Day the Pork Rines Died." The 1950s TV Guide is born. A pictoral essay of Year 1. Fifties Pop History Sugar Smacks, 56 percent sugar, is introduced by Kelloggs. The 1950s East Berliners rise against Communist rule. The Soviets roll tanks into city. End of discussion. Fifties Pop History On the Air! You'd find 2,357 AM radio, 616 FM radio and 125 TV Stations. The 1950s Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia. Fifties Pop History Joseph Stalin dies at the age of 73. He will not be missed. The 1950s Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted in 1951 of selling American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed June 9. Fifties Pop History The first 3-D movie is shown: Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack. Learn More The 1950s The Academy Awards are televised for the first time. And the winner is...Oscar stuff. Fifties Pop History Francis Crick and James Watson discover the ``double helix'' of DNA. The 1950s 46.4% of all domestic passenger travel was by railroad; 28.9% by bus; and 21.6% by air. Fifties Pop History Con-Tact paper! The 1950s The French Sardine Co. (in existence since 1917) becomes Star-Kist Foods. Charlie will appear in 1961. Fifties Pop History In Sports... The 1950s Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea Fifties Pop History Gen George C Marshall wins Nobel Peace Prize The 1950s Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy Fifties Pop History Dr. Jonas Salk announces discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis The 1950s Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Fifties Pop History Govenor Earl Warren of California is named Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, a position he would hold until 1969. The 1950s The Tuskegee Institute announces that 1953 is the second year in a row in which there were no lynchings. Some statistic. Fifties Pop History The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is established with Cabinet status. Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as Secretary, only the second woman in history to achieve this rank. (Frances Perkins under FDR was the first.) The 1950s The farm population is down 239,000 over a two year period and now stands at 24,819,000. Fifties Pop History Dag Hammarskjold chosen as secretary-general of UN The 1950s Jacqueline Cochrane, USA is the first woman to break sound barrier. You go girl! Fifties Pop History US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games The 1950s Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws (7-2) as it is a sport not a business. On what planet? Fifties Pop History Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released The 1950s Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 (2,575 kph) in Bell X-1A rocket plane Buy his Autobiography Fifties Pop History White Rose Redi-tea is the world's first instant iced tea. The 1950s Howdy Doody tumbler from Welch's More Fifties Pop History Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 2.52%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 3.47% The 1950s Irish Coffee is introduced at San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe at the foot of Hyde Street Hill on the Beach Street cable line. Want the recipe? Fifties Pop History Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap The 1950s To counteract the threat of television,Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe. Fifties Pop History There is a 33.2% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s Kraft Cheez Whiz is introduced as a shortcut for homemakers making Welsh rarebit. More Fifties Pop History There are 26,000,000 TV sets in 28,000,000 homes. The 1950s "A Stillness at Appomattox" by Bruce Catton is published, along with "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. Fifties Pop History There are 37,955 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 88 fatalities. The 1950s Unemployment is 2.9% Fifties Pop History US GNP (Gross National Product) is $378.0 billion

Mad magazine makes its debut in May as a 32-page comic book full of zany nonsense. Alfred E. Neuman has yet to make his appearance, but he's coming. See First Cover The 1950s African-American novelist Ralph Ellison publishes The Invisible Man to immediate popular acclaim. Buy the Book. Fifties Pop History Guiding Light, currently the longest running drama in broadcasting history, premiered on TV after being a staple on radio since 1937. The 1950s Oscar Stuff for 1952 - When men were men! Gary Cooper wins Best Actor for High Noon! Fifties Pop History Bridey Murphy or How Shirley McLaine Got Her Groove! Another woman of past life fame. The 1950s University of Tennessee admits its first black student. Fifties Pop History Ronald Reagan and actress Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, California. It was Reagan's second marriage. The 1950s President Truman seizes U.S. steel mills to avert an industry-wide strike for higher wages. The President asserts that the industry is vital to the defense of the U.S., but the Supreme Court rules the seizure unconstitutional. The strike is settled after 54 days in talks at the White House. Fifties Pop History King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. The 1950s Maureen Connolly becomes the youngest woman to win the U.S. Open in tennis. Fifties Pop History Ernest Hemingway, a heavyweight in American literature, publishes The Old Man in the Sea. Buy the book or Buy the Spencer Tracy Movie. The 1950s Norman Vincent Peale, publishes his most popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking and it sells more than 20 million copies in 41 languages Buy the book. Fifties Pop History Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas. A thing only a mother could love. The 1950s U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. Fifties Pop History George Jorgensen/Christine Jorgensen, the first person to go public after a sex change operation. The 1950s King George VI of Britain (1936-52) was found dead in bed by a servant delivering the morning tea. Elizabeth gets the job. A pic of a young Queen. Fifties Pop History Mrs. Paul's introduces frozen fish sticks. Way to go Mrs. Paul! Now this is my idea of a food group. Although they will have their work cut out for them gaining market share as Americans currently eat 42 hotdogs per year. The 1950s Mr. Potato Head arrives! See the original. Fifties Pop History Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech. is successful. Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President and Nixon, Vice-President. The 1950s "Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl" published in the U.S. Buy the book. or Buy the Movie on DVD On VHS Fifties Pop History TV first acknowledges pregnancy on I Love Lucy. Considering that TV will not portray married people sleeping it the same bed... Fifties Web Lucy Page The 1950s In Sports... Fifties Pop History 50,000 will be stricken by polio and 3,300 of them will die. Many more will be crippled. The 1950s When Howard Johnson's opens its 351st restaurant, it becomes the world's largest food chain. Fifties Pop History The first Holiday Inn opens and has the familiar bright yellow and green sign. The 1950s Gibson introduced the Les Paul model electric guitar, which was destined to become one of the most popular rock guitars of all time. Fifties Pop History Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, is dedicated in Groton, Connecticut. The 1950s 58,000 Scrabble sets are sold, a real resurgence for the 1931 toy. Fifties Pop History The typical U.S. grocery store now carries about 4,000 different items, up from about 870 in 1928.By the mid-1960s the grocery will be a supermarket carrying some 8,000 items. The 1950s Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduces the first pocket-sized transistor radio More Fifties Pop History Rocky Marciano beats ``Jersey'' Joe Walcott to win the world heavyweight boxing championship. The 1950s The first birth control pill is introduced, although it will not be available to the public for another 8 years. Which is why you don't hear them discussing "free love" in the Fifties. Fifties Pop History Telephone area codes begin. The 1950s Sugar Frosted Flakes, 29 percent sugar, are introduced by Kelloggs. They're Gr-r-reat (wav) Also More on Tony the Tiger Fifties Pop History The DeHavilland Comet, a commercial jet aircraft, made its debut. Twenty-one of this first model were built. Seven of them crashed due to a kind of metal fatigue that the designers had not considered. Hard to sell seats that way, fellas. The 1950s Lipton onion soup mix comes along. More Fifties Pop History Pream, a powdered nondairy coffee lightener is introduced. It keeps longer than real cream and costs less. The 1950s Over 2,000 new TV Stations opened across the US. TV has become so popular that between 1948-1952 film profits dropped by $500 million. Fifties Pop History Puerto Rico becomes a Commonwealth under U.S. jurisdiction. The 1950s Roy Campanella, Preacher Roe (baseball) and Glenn Davis, Bob Waterfield (football) get their own Wheaties boxes! Fifties Pop History There was a 28.7% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s Albert Schwietzer wins Nobel Peace Prize Fifties Pop History There were 37,794 motor vehicle related deaths.While in the air, there were 5 accidents resulting in 140 fatalities. The 1950s Unemployment is 3.1% Fifties Pop History US GNP (Gross National Product) is $355.1 billion

Topps Company started it's first baseball card series. The series consisted of two individual sets of 52 cards each. The 1950s 20 year old outfielder Willie Mays joins N.Y. Giants Baseball team, while Joe DiMaggio retires from baseball. Fifties Pop History 11,000 new books will debut this year. James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity is published.Buy the Book or Buy the Movie.Also popular this year: Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser. The 1950s J.D. Salinger published Catcher in the Rye. More Info Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny, for which he will win the Pulitzer Prize, is published. Buy the Book or Buy the Movie Also Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Buy the Book or Buy the Documentary and Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. Buy the Book Fifties Pop History Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his duties by President Truman, bade farewell to Congress. The MacArthur story. The 1950s UNIVAC 1 First commercial computer. You've Got mail! Fifties Pop History Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel from England to France in 16 hours. The 1950s Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called his counterpart mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, California. Fifties Pop History A.E.C. produces electricity from atomic energy. The 1950s Swanson introduces beef, chicken, turkey pot pies. Hard to imagine there was life before this feast of gourmet treats. Fifties Pop History The U.S. produced 100 million tons of steel and 400,000 lbs. of penicillin The 1950s Maureen Connolly becomes the youngest woman to win the U.S. Open in tennis. Fifties Pop History J. Andre-Thomas invents the first heart-lung machine, allowing advanced life-support during open-heart surgery. The 1950s Oscar stuff Marlon Brando puts on an undershirt and stars in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in a big year for movies. A cult classic debuts. The Day the Earth Stood Still. Buy the Movie DVD VHSThe robot was Gort and Michael Rennie communicated with him by saying Klaatu Barata Nikto. Fifties Pop History American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power steering., which they called Hydraguide. The 1950s Yes! Tupperware! Fifties Pop History Gerber Products starts using MSG (monsodium glutamate) in its baby foods to make them taste better. The 1950s The first Jack-in-the-Box opens in San Diego. Fifties Pop History There are 15,500,000 TV sets in 15,750,000 homes. The 1950s In Sports... - Tom Fears, Otto Graham, Johnny Lujack, (football) and George Kell,Bob Lemon and Ralph Kiner (baseball) get their own Wheaties boxes! Fifties Pop History American casualties in Korea by the end of 1951 - 15,000 dead and 75,000 wounded. The 1950s Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released.Buy the VHS Buy the DVD Fifties Pop History S&H Green Stamps get their start at the Denver store chain King Sooper. The 1950s Taco holder thingee enables fast tacos! I'll explain Fifties Pop History The U.S. Congress ratifies the Twenty-second Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms in office. (Some say that's still one too many.) The 1950s Still camera gets built-in flash units. Fifties Pop History The Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Mississippi became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi. The 1950s A Crosley automobile with a steering wheel on the right side became the first such vehicle placed in service for mail delivery - in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fifties Pop History The comic strip, Dennis the Menace, written by Hank Ketchum, debuts and is picked up by 750 newspapers. The 1950s There are 900 fewer inmates in prison than the previous year. Although that still leaves 164,896 of 'em in jail. Fifties Pop History Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of selling atomic secrets to the Soviets. The 1950s There are now 8.2 million trucks in the U.S. Fifties Pop History The first section of the New Jersey Turnpike opens. The 1950s 17 million Americans now own TV sets. Just in time for I Love Lucy and the Cisco Kid to debut. Fifties Pop History Citation becomes the first race horse to earn more than one million dollars. The 1950s There was a 30.7% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964 Fifties Pop History There were 36,996 motor vehicle related deaths.While in the air, there were 11 accidents resulting in 185 fatalities. The 1950s Unemployment: 3.3% Fifties Pop History Fifties Web contributor Tony Rogerson was born on 21/01/51 in a small industrial town called Widnes on the outskirts of Liverpool, England. The 1950s US GNP (Gross National Product) is $329.6 billion

The population of the United States as reported by the 1950 Census is 150,697,361. The population of the world is approximately 2.5 billion. More 1950 Census Info The 1950s The population of the world is 2.52 billion Fifties Pop History 64% of Americans now live in cities The 1950s There are 1,667,231 marriages to 385,144 divorces (23%). By 1998 there will be 2,256,000 marriages and 955,000 divorces (43%) Fifties Pop History Median age for 1st marriage is 22.8 years old for men and 20.3 for women. By 1998, it will be 26.7 years old for men and 25 for women. Noting statistics one above, you can assume older but no wiser. Marriage prospects of single men and women. The 1950s A.C. Nielsen's Audimeters track viewer watching. Fifties Pop History Walt Disney's Cinderella opens in theaters. Buy on VHS The 1950s Sugar Pops are introduced. Fifties Pop History Antihistamines enter popular use for treatment of allergies and head-colds. The 1950s RCA 45 RPM record attachment - now you can play RCA’s new 45’s! - includes 6 records - $12.95 Fifties Pop History Zenith introduces "lazy bones" tuning - change all television stations from the comfort of your easy chair. Hand held device plugs into TV. The 1950s Silly Putty is introduced! Fifties Pop History And the winner is... Oscar stuff The 1950s 21.6 percent of wives worked outside the home. By 1960, that number hit 30.5 percent. The reason for the jump? There was simply so much to buy. Fifties Pop History The Pillsbury Company launches it's annual "Bake-off" to promote flour. The 1950s Pillsbury and General Mills introduce prepared cake mixes. Fifties Pop History CBS receives an FCC license to begin broadcasting in color. The 1950s Ball-O-Fire gumballs arrive! Fifties Pop History KRAFT® Deluxe process cheese slices - the first commercially packaged sliced process cheese - are introduced. The 1950s North Korea invades South Korea. Truman orders the U.S. into the war. 3 million soldiers and civilians will be killed or wounded before it ends in 1953. Fifties Pop History 36.3% of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 3.3% on TV. See chart of all ad dollars. The 1950s The U.S. will import 21,287 passenger cars. That number will climb to 668,070 by 1959, which will be a stellar year for imports. Fifties Pop History Guys & Dolls opens on Broadway. Buy the Original Cast CD The 1950s Albert Einstein warns against the hydrogen bomb, which President Truman okays building. Fifties Pop History USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb. The 1950s Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Port Authority open in NYC Fifties Pop History Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women. A pox on your clocks, gentleman. The 1950s In Sports... Fifties Pop History Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein for South Pacific. Buy the Original Cast CD The 1950s Hank Snow makes his first appearance on the "Grand Ole Opry" Buy Snow on CD Fifties Pop History Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, debuted on TV and 600,000 Hoppy lunchboxes were sold in 1950 alone The 1950s Seeburg begins selling jukeboxes which play 45 RPM records, which would become THE jukebox for soda shop, bowling alleys and bars. Fifties Pop History Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner The 1950s Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast Fifties Pop History Death penality abolished in Belgium The 1950s Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco Fifties Pop History Brinks Robbery in Boston - 11 men - 2.8 million - 17 minutes The 1950s Alger Hiss is convicted. Fifties Pop History Joseph McCarthy begins Soviet witch hunt. The 1950s Leo Fender's guitar company introduced their Broadcaster and Esquire models, the first mass-produced solid body electric guitars. Fifties Pop History Smokey the Bear gains national popularity. The 1950s Minute Rice is launched with the first consumer advertising ever put behind rice. Fifties Pop History The Open Kettle, a coffe and donut shop in Quincy Mass. is renamed Dunkin' Donuts. The first franchise is offerred in 1955. The 1950s PaperMate is the first leak-proof ballpoint pen in 1950. Fifties Pop History Haloid Corporation (later renamed Xerox) develops the first xerographic copy machine. The 1950s Tennis admits first Black woman, Althea Gibson. Fifties Pop History There are now 2,200 drive-in movie theatres, twice as many as in 1949. The 1950s Diner's Club becomes the first credit card. Fifties Pop History Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950. The 1950s FBI institutes the 10 Most Wanted list. Wanna see the current crop of Bad Guys? Fifties Pop History Cartoonist Hank Ketcham created one of the most enduringly irresistible imps in the world., "Dennis the Menace." By 2000,Today the comic panel appears in more than 1,200 newspapers in 48 countries and in 19 languages. The 1950s There are 407 beer breweries in operation. Fifties Pop History Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche. This first Black recipient was undersecretary of the U.N. at the time. The 1950s Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories and Western Electric. Fifties Pop History Mother Teresa founded the first Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. The 1950s President Harry Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. Fifties Pop History There are 10,500,000 TV sets in 10,400,000 homes. The 1950s The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas Fifties Pop History There was a 34.3% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964 The 1950s There were 34,763 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 144 fatalities. Fifties Pop History Unemployment is 5.3% The 1950s US GNP (Gross National Product) is $288.5 billion